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Roger Pielke, Jr. was referenced in the news regarding the 2013 Play the Game conference on FIFA Reform
FIFA Reform – is it producing results?
playthegame.org
by Marcus Hoy
Has football’s world governing body implemented any meaningful reforms since the much-criticised bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups? A top FIFA official and some of the organisation’s most prominent critics shared a platform at the Play the Game conference to address this question.
Since FIFA controversially awarded hosting rights to Russia and Qatar in late 2010, three reports have proposed changes to its internal structure. The global anti-corruption group Transparency International, FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee (IGC) and a report by University of Basel Professor Mark Pieth who is also outgoing chair of the IGC have all issued recommendations in areas such as transparency, democratic reform, age and term limits of officials and salary disclosure.
While agreeing that FIFA has taken a few important steps, Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology told Play the Game that 42 out of 59 recommendations contained in the three reports had not yet been implemented. Pielke, who presented his full findings to Play the Game in the days leading up to the 2013 conference, used a newly-developed empirical “scorecard” to reach his conclusions. Read more …
Pielke gave a presentation at the conference on “An Evaluation of the FIFA Reform Process”. View the slides of his presentation [pdf].
